Hello,
I'm sorting through all my computer supplies, getting ready to move into
a house. I haven't actually bought a house yet, but I'm looking.
I've got this huge MTI narrow SCSI case that I'd like to sell. It'll
hold 4 full height drives. Each drive fits into a steel box that is
removable from the main tower. One box is an open face making it
perfect for a cd-rom. I did have some troubles with certain drives not
liking certain positions in the tower. I'm not sure if it was the
drives, the case, or what. After I got everything arranged, it worked
fine. Also the scsi select switch needs to be replaced as one bay is
stuck on ID#3. This thing is built like a tank, and I love the way it
looks but I just don't use it anymore. I'd like to get $50 for it. It
will need to be picked up, However.
I do need to point out, that this case can not be easily converted to
wide scsi, due to the removable steel boxes the drives fit into. No
drives included, but I do have a few cables and a terminator or two that
can go with it.
I'm located in Southwest Michigan. Email me for a more complete
location, or for answers to you questions.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net]
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > Well, on one hand, yes, but on the other hand, I like my
> Indigo 2 Elan with
> > no texture memory just fine. I'm also considering trying
> I didn't know you had another SGI box ;)
Yep.
> A couple people I've known who ended up with old SGI gear thought they
> were going to create some kind of fancy animations with this kind of
> hardware, so I never know what to think now.
Depends on what you mean by "fancy animations." It will probably do better
out of the box than most new peesees depending on what you'd like to
animate. (and whether it requires texture memory, of course) Both of my
SGIs, for instance, have analog video in/out, which is a start. On the
other hand, you can't really do a good animation with anything "out of the
box." It usually takes a lot of strange stuff.
The graphical prowess of the machines is still something, though. For
instance, the ability of the machine to provide individual color-maps for
different windows on the screen, without the nasty palette-flashing that's
seen in xfree86 on an intel box (for example) when you try the same...
> Sounds like you at least have an original VGX chassis then.
> It is possible
> someone upgraded some of the boards, but the only way you'll
> be able to
> tell is to pull them and cross reference the part numbers.
I'm thinking about doing that. The label on top of the chassis actually
says "4D/440 VGX" or something to that effect.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
I'm going to claim this is on topic since it's for my
SPARCStation2 which is 10 years old.
To make a (semi-)long story short, I've come to the
conclusion that I need a SCSI1 to SCSI3 adapter with
high byte termination to connect a wide IBM SCSI drive
to the narrow SCSI controller in my SS2. The only
IDC50M to MD68M adapter I've found doesn't have the
termination. There's a nice little adapter out there
but it's got female connectors on both ends. I could
try to assemble something with gender changers, but
I'm afraid I'd end up spending more than I did on
the drive for a Frankenstien that I'm not even sure
would work.
So my question is, does anyone know where to find an
adapter with male connectors? Or, for that matter,
has anyone dealt with this sort of thing and have
a better suggestion?
Thanks in advance,
Brian L. Stuart
Interesting one here...
While composing a reply in Outlook 2001 (on a Mac OSX 10.1.2), I wrote
'PayPal'. Since I have the program check spelling before sending :-) it came
up and thought I meant to write 'payola' instead of PayPal. Think M$ is
trying to say something?
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Thank You everyone for all the Information on my PC Server 500 find.
I found the manual on the IBM site as suggested by a kind soul here.
I may just go ahead and see if I can repair the PS, as it did not smoke when
it went out, it just popped, so it may be possible as someone suggested that
it's just a fuse inside the PS. I now have to locate a special hex screw
driver, as the screws are hex with a tiny post in the middle of the screw.
However is it anything more than just a Intel Pentium 90 that has 6 SCSI
2.25 Gig hard drives on it ? Can it do anything special other than run RAID
?
Thanks again for everyones comments.. Phil..
My Otronas have FD-55B-01-U drives in them. I thought the drives were
fried, since they wouldn't work on the Otrona nor on the PC, but in dinking
around, I determined that on at least one drive (and probably the other),
the head load solenoid is not pulling in. I see power being applied, but it
only looks like +5V.
I don't have schematics, and I'm not ready to risk wrecking the drives
determining the following question: Should the solenoids pull in on +5 or
+12? If I'm seeing +5, I suspect the solenoid driver transistor could be
cooked. The solenoid coil is intact, as I'm seeing 44 ohms across it, out
of circuit. In either case, I don't feel even the lightest twitch when it's
supposed to pull in (and the jumper is in place, for load on motor select).
Does anyone have any FD-55B (these are the 360K DS-DD 48 TPI) drives they'd
like to part with, either to see an Otrona running, or in exchange for ye
olde green stuffe?
--John
I need a Shugart 851 8" floppy drive manual. Does anyone have one that
hey'll loan me or make a copy of it for me? Or does anyone have a pointer
to an on-line copy?
I have a bunch of 851 drives and I need to see how to configure them to
use in place of Shugart 800 drives.
Joe
I have just acquired part of a DECdatasystem 570. I have the following
questions about it: Why did DEC repackage their PDP-11s this way? When
were the various DECdatasystem models released? How do they fit in with
the rest of DEC's product line, and how were they marketed?
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
On Feb 28, 11:50, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> Is there info somewhere that shows how symbols are encoded onto paper
> tape?
>
> Ideally it would include the actual hole positions like so:
>
> 8 4 2 1
> A: *
> B: *
> C: * *
>
> (Note: this is not an actual example but just an example of the format
> I'm looking for. Of course.)
Lots of unix (including many BSD/Linux) systems have a program called ppt
(usually in /usr/bin/games or similar) which takes an ASCII string and
outputs a facsimile of paper tape. The dormat is just ASCII in binary
form, with columns arranged exactly as your little sample above, except
there are 8 columns, and a hole represents a '1'. What you do with the 8th
coulmn depends; on PDP-8 systems the top bit was often set for ASCII (but
it has special significance to binary loaders), on some systems it would be
unused, on others it would be the parity bit.
Do a Google search for "ppt paper tape" and you'll find info about "ppt".
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
